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THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER %, 1887.
0lch! II Hurts!

The following tender billet doux
rom Rev. ID. G.. LeSourd indicates
that somebody ia added by tho first
effects Of the cyclone. Unable to do
:ernine whether it is sore toe that
got stubbed, or = skinned knuckle,
or whether house fell on him, the
victim emerges in dazed condition
and gives vent to the following:
EDITOR ARGUS, PoIT townsend
Sir:-You will confer favor by not
sending the ANGUS to me. I want
pure literature in my home
Yours, &c,
ID. u. LKSoURD.
Ii We must ba first pure, then
pesceabls, We would like to be started
aright If We have done injustice or
wrong to Rev: IeSourd, why don't
he call US to an account for it?
Posing il the baby act will avail
nothing. OF course it excites our
sympathy to have anyone snivel when
he gets hurt, hat our duty to the
public must be performed.
Khe truth is that the day for
working" this university matter on
: the sly, and in the role of a bsckbiter,
has gone by. 1t is public question,
and must be treated in public man
nsr. Ii the soiled linen of the con-
ference could be washed in private,
We would prefer.
In order that there may be the
utmost fairness in this matter, we
desire to publicly PROFOUND few
questions to Mr.. LsSourd, and we
hereby tender the use of space in the
ARGUS for his answers. We chal-
lenKs him to meet the issues like q
man, and to come out with candid
replies. Dodging or begging the
question will be taken as attempts 10
avoid eliminating himself-as will
also any failure on his part to an
swer. He may have felt that his
high position in the Church gave him
the prerogative to affect q superiority
over the newspapers, and to ignore
them when they make things dis
sgrssably warm; but if such an idea
has had possession of him it should
be disPelled. Whether he wants to
or not, he mus. answer at the bar of
public opinion.
Question 1st-Did you, or did you
not, represent to your brethren in
the minsstry, within the Puget
SQUAD conference. that the outside
lands of the Port Townsend uAiver-
sity bonus were comparatively worth
lsss-alogged off," Ac.i II 80, was
it not a fact that you spoke thus
from pure malice, not having had any
personal investigation Of said lands.
although you had been appointed by
the conference last year to make
such investigstionf
2d-Were you, or were you not, q
party to q secret or surreptitious
meeting Of the fillibustsring minority
OF the board of university trustees,
with view Of thwsrting the wishes
OF the majority, and of defeating the
object for which said board was ap-
pointed!
3d-Did You, or did you not, in
form Rev. D. w. Cameron and Prof.
J. L. Henderson that they had been
appointed "by the board of trustees"
to investigate the Port Townsend
bonus. but that Denison and Dillon
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data for their investigation?
4ta-Was it not fact that you had
ample time before the recent confer
sncs SESSION, in which to have made
personal investigation into the value
of the Port Townsend bonus-yet
that you represented yourself as
having been unable to do SO for lack
OF timsi We're you not urged by the
agent of the Port Townsend board OF
trade to make investigation into
these values! Did he not urge you
as early as March to mahs such in
vsstigationi Did he not urge you
repeatedly since then to do sof
6th-Did you, or did you not, rep
resent to the brethren in the con-
ference that the people Of Port
Townsend by their board of trade
agent, and the agent of the confer
ence, were trying to swindle the con-
florence into accepting sham values
Have you not worked IN season aud
out OF season for months past to pre-
iudice the minds of members of the
conference against said conference
agent and said board of trade agent
Have you not been trying to discredit
them in their worki Have you not
gone about with pitiful tale about
Denison and Weir trying to defeat
you fer delegate to general confer
snesl And while you have been cir
culating that fabrication, have you
not songht to make Of it handle
with which TO compass the defeat OF
the university enterprise at Port
ToWnsends
6th-Have you not wiltully per-
vertsd your Office and opportunities
as presiding elder to work injury to
your brethren ct Port Townsend, to
whom you owed nothing but manly
and fair treatment!
Please b explicit and positive in
your answers, Mr.. LeSourd. Ne one
wants to hold you up before the
public in light you do not deserve
but you have had your day and op.
portunity, which you used 80 in
dastriously to bring about an action
in every way unworthy of honest OF
fair-mindsd men. We have beer
carefully collecting some interesting
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may get yourself into bad fix; so
agaiE We say. be extremely careful
about your ausWors. On tho whole
II you cannot answer without Grim
mating yourself, you may be excused
If yos will answer these questions
We have some more ready for you.
The European wheat crop is now
known to be unusually large The
akatistIca of the International corn